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BARREL CLEANING MACHINE. No. 371,045. Patented Oct. 4,1887.

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BARREL CLEANING MACHINE.

N0. 371,045. Patentgd 001;. 4, 1887 ZZV 22 60/15. M'o mzw ERS, PM:lmgraph UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ULRICH EBERHARDT AND HENRY E. EBERHARDT, OF NEWARK,

NEW JERSEY.

BARREL-CLEANING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 371,045, dated October4, 1887.

Application filed August 16, 1886. Serial No. 211.060. (No mod l.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: Be it known that we, ULRIoH EBERHARDT andHENRY E. EBERHARDT, citizens of the United States, residing at Newark,Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Barrel-Oleaning Machines, fully described andrepresented in the following specification and the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of the same.

The object of this inventionis to remove the casks fromthe machine morereadily when cleaned, to operate upon either the inner or outer sides ofthe cask, and to cheapen the construction.

In the drawings, Figurel is a side View, and Fig. 2 an end view, of theapparatus. Fig. 3

is a section of the top cross-head on line a: x in Fig. 1, with theclamps not in section. Fig. 4 is a detached View of one of the clampsenlarged. Fig. 5 is a side view of part of the frame, with a cask insection and an internal brush applied. Fig. 6 is an inside View of oneof the stanchions and its attachments, the bedplate being shown insection on lineyyin Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan of the parts shown in Fig.5; and Fig. 8 is an inside view of the right-hand stanchion of Fig. 5,with the bed and the brush-handle in section on line 2 z in Fig. 7.

In Fig. 1 the barrel or cask is indicated merely in dotted 1ines,and thecleaning-brushes are all fully shown; but the cask is shown in fulllines in Fig. 2 and the-brushes are omitted. The cask O is supportedupon four india-rubber wheels, a, mounted upon two parallel shafts, andthe upper brushes, b b, and the end brushes, 6 e, are made adjustable tofit closely to the cask. This construction is an ordinary one; butheretofore the casks have been removed from the machine by various meansother than those shown and described herein. In our invention one of theroll-shafts is made movable, and is lowered to permit the rolling of thebarrel or cask readily from the indiarubber rolls or wheels.

A is the bed, and B B are stanchions supporting the end brushes, 6 e,and carrying a cross-head, D, to sustain the upper or side brushes, b b.

d d are the-wheel-shafts, one being journaled in boxes n a in the feetof the stanchions, and

and the shafts are connected by sprocketwheels 0 and a chain, 0, theshaft (1 being extended beyond the bed and rotated by a pulley, k.

The ends of the arms at are sustained by links Z and cranks l, affixedto a shaft, j, secured across the tops of the stanchions, and the shaftis provided with a handle, 1', to move it, and with a latch, h, to holdit in the required position. The latch has a hooked end fitted to astop, 9, upon the stanchion B, and a handle, 9, adjacent to the handlei. When looked, as in Fig. 2, the latch sustains the cranks Z, so thatthe shaft (2 is on a level with the shaft d, and the barrel is thenretained upon the wheels, as seen in the figure; but

the other, d, in the ends of movable arms m m,

when the latch is released the arms fall, as

shown in Fig. 6, and the cask may then be easily rolled out of themachine.

The floor may be constructed of different levels at opposite sides ofthe machine, as shown at E and F in Fig. 6, to facilitate the admissionand removal of the casks. When the supporting-wheels, which arepreferably made of rubber, become worn down to a smaller diameter, it isdesirable to draw the shafts d and d closer together to sustain the caskat the desired level, and this we effect by making movable shaft-boxesin the arms and in the frame and shifting them toward one another.

a are the boxes in the frame,and n the boxes in the ends of the arms m,and r is a block fitted by the side of the box in each slot 9', in whichthe box is held. The blocks are shown in the outer ends of the slots inFigs. 2 and 6, and the shafts thus separated to the greatest degree; butin Figs. 7 and 8 the blocks are shown in theinuer ends of the slots andthe boxes and shafts crowded together thereby. The boxes, when shiftedin the slots, may be held therein by loose keys 0', dropped edgewisethrough holes in the arm or stanchion behind the box, or by anyothersuitable means.

Our improvement in the end brushes, 6 6, consists in fitting theirholders p to the face of a block or seat, 1), fastened movably to theface of the stanchion. The holders are slotted at 'v to embrace a bolt,12, which passes through the holder, the seat, and the stanchion. Thisconstruction is clearly shown in Fig. 7, at the left side, where one ofthe holders without the brush is shown thus secured. The seat isfurnished with ribs at the edges to guide it on the face of thestanchion, and the latter is provided with a slot, 1)", as shown in Fig.5, or with a series of holes, as p. The seat may thus be shiftedvertically and the holder endwise, and the brush thus be quicklyadjusted and secured by a single bolt in any required position.

The upper brushes, 1) b, are secured to rods 1), and adjusted verticallyby a cross-bar, b and screw b in the usual manner.

Our improvement in this part of the machine consists in fitting clampsof particular construction to the rods 1), to prevent such rods fromloosening and to hold the brushes steadily when in use.

The clamp consists of a bolt, g, constructed with a hook, g, at theinner end, to embrace the rod b, and its end extended through thecross-head D and provided with a hand-nut,

q. The clamp-nut g is slackened when ad-' justing the brushes b b andtightened while they are in use, and the rods b are thus firmly securedin the frame, when adjusted, by the screw b.

In Fig. 5 is shown an attachment interchangeable with one of the endbrushes, 6, to operate upon the interior of the cask with one headremoved.

The seatp is provided with a grooved brushholder, w, pivoted upon thebolt o, and adapted to sustain a sliding bar, w, which carries a brush,20 upon its inner end, and is provided with a handle, to, at its outerend to manipulate the brush inside the cask. The brush is fitted both tothe side and end of the cask, so as to clean the head and stavessimultaneously, and when the work is done may be readily withdrawn bysliding the bar to outward and lifting it from the holder w. A stoppin,G, is shown fitted to the seat beneath the inner end of the holder, toprevent it from tipping on the bolt 1).

It will be noticed that the fixtures for washing the exterior andinterior of the barrel are applied by means of holders which fitinterchangeably to the movable seat 10, and that either ofthem may besubstituted for the other by removing the bolt 1) and exchanging thebrush-holder w for the holder 1). After the exterior of the head hasbeen cleaned by the brush 6 or e,one of the heads may be removed, andthe interior may then be cleaned by applying the brush 20 Theconstruction which makes these fixtures interchangeable consists in thecombination, with the vertically-slotted stanchion B, of the movableseatrp and the bolt 12, adapted not only to clamp the movaable seat p tothe stanchion, but to also clamp either of the brush-holders to theseat, as may be preferred.

A water-pipe, D, is shown affixed to the stanchions to supply water tothe brushes; but this forms no part of our invention.

'lVe are aware that it is not new in abarrel: painting machine havingits driving-shaft directly over the center of the barrel to pivot shaftsby means of movable arms upon each side of the barrel, such shafts beingprovided with rollers to confine saidbarrel while the paint is beingapplied and to spread the paint when applied to the barrel; but we arenot aware that a cask-scrubbing machine has ever been made having twoshafts provided with rollers for supporting the same, one being pivotedto the other and adapted, when lowered, to roll the cask out of themachine over itself. We therefore disclaim the former construction.

Having thus set forth the improvements we have made, what we claimherein is- 1. The combination,in a cask-scrubbing ma chine, of twoparallel shafts, each carrying rollers for supporting and rotating thecask, one of such shafts being pivoted by means of arms to the other andotherwise connected thereto by means of gearing, the movable shaft beingadapted, when lowered, to depress one side of the cask to roll it out ofthe machine over the said shaft, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cask-scrubbing machine, the combination, with the bed A,stanchions B B, and shaft d, journaled in movable boxes n upon theframe, of the arms m, provided with slot 0 and boxes n, the shaft d, journaled in said boxes, wheels 0 upon said shafts, to carry, the cask,blocks r, fitted to the slot 0", to adjust the boxes therein, shaft 3,carrying cranks Z, linked to the arms m, and handle i, provided withlatch h, the whole arranged and operated as and for the purpose setforth.

3. In a cask-scrubbing machine, the combination, with means for rotatingthe barrel, of

the bed A, stanchions B B, erected upon the same, and movable seats 19,having brushholders held adjustable thereon by bolts 1), the stanchionssustaining the seats and brushholders adjacent to the cask-heads, andthe seats being each adjustable vertically with the brush-holders bymeans of the single clamping-bolt a, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a cask-scrubbing machine, the combination, with means for rotatingthe barrel, of the bed A, stanchions B B, supporting the seats p andbrush-holders p, the cross-head D, carrying the upper brushes upon rods1), and the clamps consisting in the bolts q, provided with the hook q,and hand-nut (f, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a cask-scrubbing machine, the combination, wit-h means forrotating the barrel, of

the bed A, stanehions B B, erected upon the our hands in the presence oftwo subscribing same,hthe movable seat 19 upon one of the witnesses.stanc ions, the brush holder 10, sustained thereon, and the movable barw, provided with 5 brush w, fitted to the interior of the barrel or I acask, and having handle 10 to manipulate the \Vitnesses: brush,substantially as shown and described. FRED L. EBERHARDT,

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set THos. S. CRANE.

